Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East, Higher Broughton. (c) Neil Richardson [1].
Just off Bury New Road on Great Cheetham Street East, the row of shops that once stood here was known as Sun Terrace and its datestone read 1853. On the corner of Rigby Street, the grocers shop was granted a beer licence, so in the 1870s the Sun Inn was opened [1].
Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East. (c) Salford Pubs of the 70s flickr [2].
The Sun was a Boddingtons house and survived as the shops and houses around it were demolished in the name of progress. As can be seen above, ugly new high-rises were built, but only some of them appear to have survived, below.
Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East. (c) History of Rock and Roll [3].
Local beat poet John Cooper Clark was pictured outside the Sun Inn by the NME when he was guest singles reviewer in February 1979, not long before it was pulled down.
Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East. (c) History of Rock and Roll [3].
Local beat poet John Cooper Clark was pictured outside the Sun Inn by the NME when he was guest singles reviewer in February 1979, not long before it was pulled down.
Former location of Sun Inn, Great Cheetham Street East, Higher Broughton. (c) Google 2012. View Larger Map.
1. Salford Pubs Part Two: Including Islington, Ordsall Lane and Ordsall, Oldfield Road, Regent Road and Broughton, Neil Richardson (2003).
2. www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.
3. www.historyofrockandroll.co.uk.
2. www.flickr.com/photos/61756486@N05.
3. www.historyofrockandroll.co.uk.
